BDCC's Sustain Alpha Transdermal Log

Training:
Training split: Chest and biceps, back and triceps, legs, off or cycle interval sprints. Repeat

My leg is what I injured recently and lost around 20lbs (I will do things in lbs as much as possible for all you American folk) in the space of 18 days. I experimented with putting interval sprints on the cycle on my last off day and rather than impeding recovery it seemed to have no detrimental effect to my leg strength.

Routine at the moment starts with a high-low contrast set on the body part of my first exercise. The volume is reasonably high as I have lost muscle to regain.

Goals:
Lean bulk back to my previous weight. My body fat should never go over 10%.

Nutrition:The majority of my meals consist of meat or fish with vegetables or nuts. Grains and starches are kept minimal and are limited to the evenings. This is an updated version of my carb cycling approach with a more consistent level of carbs in the evenings rather than very low carb days and higher carb days. Dextrose is post workout. I avoid dairy, gluten and soy at all costs.

Supplements:- BCAAs and EAAs (in the morning, intra workout and post workout while my Brown Rice Protein is out of stock everywhere)
- Dextrose (post workout)
- SAN CM2 (my first time using a nitrate product)
- Glycobol (won this as a giveaway, no log for this)
- Caffeine (pre workout)
- DGL
- Krill oil

Notes on Primordial Performance and Sustain Alpha TD:I have never owned a PP product before. There is no hype on the UK boards and very few people over here discuss the PP products, especially the natural line since the Androseries became such a big project. I have heard positive comments of SA but haven't read any logs and have intentionally not searched for them since the Primordial giveaway to stay oblivious to typical results and limit the placebo effect I may notice.

Primordial shipped this via Fed-Ex and it arrived in 2 days. This is faster than I get most products in the UK. Outstanding (and expensive) service. HTS who arranged the delivery and the giveaway went the extra mile to ensure a prompt service and even messaged another PP rep to relay instructions to me when he was unable to get to the computer. Top class service so far.

My general policy on natural hormonal type of products is not to track weight or stats as so few natural AIs or testosterone boosters provide significant benefits to lean mass or body fat percentage outside of dietary changes. This is especially true in this instance as I am coming back from injury so strength gains and lean body mass increases are impossible to contribute to their product without running the risk of being unintentionally misleading.

So, I will judge what I can and offer an objective review.

I ran this at 6 pumps per day to my shoulders, pecs, traps, upper arms, abs, inner thighs and testicles. I took a two day break twice during this product but it did not fit the 5/2 protocol. It was more 7/2, 5/2, 7/NA.

Prior to Sustain Alpha I very rarely woke up with morning wood. My sex drive was fairly low with the stresses of starting a new job and intercourse with my girlfriend was a fairly rare situation despite us living together and sleeping in the same bed every night.

During the first couple of weeks there was not a lot to report on. Subtle changes were there but nothing substantial. On the final week of this product I noticed the following;

- More frequent morning erections
- Erections which were much harder than usual
- Higher sex drive
- More frequent masturbation when I was on my own

For a libido based product, it delivered.

On the scale of strength I find Testofen products kick in sooner but dwindle by the end of the second week. I rate Testofen products making a more substantial difference in the time I am running them. Should I have ran Sustain Alpha TD for longer I might change my mind on this as my peak effect from this product was right at the end of the run with no sign of slowing down.

This product was infinitely stronger for me than HCGenerate in the respect that I noticed nothing from the product so I cannot multiply zero results to result in anything but zero.

It did not have the same total effect as Endosurge did for me, which kicked in at the same time as Sustain Alpha but I got to run it for longer. Should I have used SA for longer it may have well been comparable, this is also due to the length of the cycle from one bottle.

If someone has the budget to run this I highly recommend buying a second bottle as I suspect the results continue. Potentially stacking Phyto Testosterone and this as PT would kick in quicker for me while I wait for SA to start working.

Thanks to PP for sending this to me. International shipping isn't always expensive but they sent it via Fed Ex which is extremely costly. Most companies use USPS budget shipping methods so I know you went the extra mile.

If anyone has any questions about my experience on it please feel free to ask.

The product arrived yesterday. The quality of the bottle and label are top notch. Some companies charge a lot for their products yet it looks like they cut corners (a recent log I ran on another forum). This is definitely not one of those cases. It looks like PP make an effort to do things of a high quality.

I have applied yesterday morning and this morning, 12 pumps in total gone (I will be using 6 pumps per day).

The cream is a very smooth consistency, smells nice and once again, is of a very high quality. It absorbs within a couple of minutes but leaves your skin feeling soft afterwards. I have applied most of the pumps to the upper body (chest, shoulders, upper arms and traps) with a bit on my abdominals and testicles since a lot of people claim this helped their results. I am not necessarily convinced on the science rather than getting a libido boost simply because you are rubbing your own genitals lol. Either way, that is my dosing for the moment. If any PP reps have some applied experience on application please let me know.

Edit: Now I remember what I was going to say. You lost 20lbs off your bodyweight in 18 days due to a leg injury you say...
What happened?

Welcome guys.

Flex, it was a pathetic leg injury where some persistent level of stiffness in my lower back and external rotators of my hip caused me to have a serious muscle strain on a right hip flexor and left me on crutches. Not being able to train or walk around and cook = recipe for muscle atrophy lol.

It is aimed at hypoertrophy with a strength component at the beginning for me to regain what I have lost. The workout went well, had a sample of SuperPump Max I used instead of caffeine. I wrote an article on BB.com and had a voucher so added in a couple of samples. Today I will be using 1MR pre workout.

Sustain Alpha: 6 pumps, 2 applied to each shoulder covering upper arm, traps and pecs as well, one pump to the abdominals and one pump on the inner thighs and scrotum. I am applying first thing in the morning as I tend to shower later in the day.

I can't link them, they have company annotations in and that is naughty, I checked with a mod ages ago after they asked how to perform a bent over barbell row correctly.

Libido I will comment on in a few days, when I have only been on it two full days any increased could be coincidental. I finished an HCGenerate log on another forum not long ago and had no effects to report for the entire run. Hopefully this will not be the case here.

Interval sprints on the cycle followed by a calf circuit. My calves have always been small in comparison to the rest of me, since my injury it looks like I stole them from a 13 year old school girl.

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Sustain Alpha: The last few days I have been having consistent dreams. I usually don't dream every night unless I am on a testosterone booster of some kind. I have just realised this is my 6th day on the product and supposedly I am to do a 5 on 2 off regime.

I am also looking at booking another physique shoot in soon so may change my training to lose 1-2% more fat.

Yes. Following such severe atrophy in my legs and my patella tracking was not as smooth as it usually is as well as having stability and strength limitations on quad dominant exercises. I can reach ATG on heel elevated versions but nowhere near on a normal squat, even with bodyweight. These are the first time I have been able to squat again so it is the first stage of my full range knee rehab programme.

Originally Posted by bembem

Good luck man

Thank you.

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Back and tricep training again today.

I had +90lbs for three reps on dead hang medium grip pull ups with a 4-0-1-0 tempo. Due to my light weight at the moment this is exactly half of my bodyweight.

I am looking at arranging a photoshoot still and offers from photographers have started to come in. I did a mini second session in the evening on the same muscle groups using high volume and light weight.

Atrophy from an injury? Have you tried doing a wider-stance, PL style squat where less emphasis is on the quads?

Not since my injury. I am trying to place as much emphasis on my quads as possible as that is where I lost a lot of strength. 6 weeks ago I couldn't do any form of squat, bodyweight or otherwise. At the beginning of this mesocycle I was front squatting with an empty bar.

I might use a squat stance like this to get used to heavy axial loading again as my weights on squats are so much lower than they were, they are only just exceeding my standing good mornings.